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Unser Preußen – Ausdrucke

05 Friday Jul 2019

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Also, mein Exemplar von Unser Preußen fehlt einige Seiten und eine Karte, deswegen kaufte ich ein anderes Exemplar. Jetzt ist das erste demontiert worden, weil ich die Ausdrucke scannen wollte.

Hier sind die erste zwei,  und es kommt noch viel mehr.

Graf Moltke

24 Wednesday Oct 2018

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Ein neuer Erwerb, mal wieder…

Friedrich Wilhelm IV und Elisabeth Ludovica

04 Friday May 2018

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So according to my somewhat hagiographic biography of Graf von Lüttichau the man himself wrote a book about Friedrich Wilhelm IV and his wife Elisabeth Ludovica in 1894. The Graf had been Kammerherr to Elisabeth for the last few years of her life so should have some idea of the subject.
Thanks to the wonder of Abe Books I found a copy, same year and publisher as described in the biography. The binding is not exactly to my taste but it’s an interesting little book nonetheless.

Unser Preußen

13 Friday Apr 2018

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Ein neuer Erwerb. Es gibt eine Widmung (in schöner Kurrentschrift) von 1914 auf der Deckelinnenseite, bald würde alles vorbei sein. Wenn sie nur gewußt hätten…

 

Aus dem Nachlasse von der Marwitz – Lebensbeschreibung

04 Wednesday Oct 2017

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Well I’ve finally finished the first volume; Lebensbeschreibung, of Marwitz’s Nachlasse, after starting reading it shortly after the New Year. I’ve enjoyed it immensely, slow history is the only way to attempt to get close to long-dead people, although the passage of time and my basic grasp of German keeps me at a respectful distance. Which seems fitting.

A couple of final thoughts. Why did Marwitz think that George Canning, founder of Anti-Jacobin of all things, was a liberal and one of the biggest fools ever to walk the earth (einer der größten Narren, die die Erde je getragen – pg. 466)? I also loved the timelessness of “ein nicht liberaler Gelehrter ist so selten wie ein weißer Rabe” (pg. 468), some things never change.

However there’s no need to worry about a lack of content to come for this blog as I’ve just begun the second volume; Militairische & Politische Aufsätze. I’m sure that’s a relief for both of you.

Historische Karte von Preußen

29 Friday Sep 2017

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Waiting to be framed at the moment, Historische Karte von Preußen, around 1891 apparently, obviously taken from a book at some point but a nice little map.

My photography needs some work.

Der Tag ist Angebrochen #2

01 Thursday Jun 2017

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Today I received a copy of Der Tag ist Angebrochen! in the post, via AbeBooks as usual.

TagAngebrochen

2nd edition, 1852, a little tatty but solid. I’m confident that it will provide the opportunity for a few more blogposts yet…

*Edit: Now sandwiched in my bookcase between Bismarck’s Gedanken und Erinnerungen and a book of his speeches. You can feel the spinning in the Bismark Mausoleum.

Campe’s Kleine Kinderbibliothek

25 Thursday May 2017

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A new purchase, once again inspired by a reference in Marwitz’s memoirs (Seite 77), apparently he read this whilst stuck in Nieszawa in Poland without German books or newspapers. A present for his brother that fortunately he had been unable to deliver.

Campe-Kinderbibliothek

A lovely little book, full of poems, prayers and short stories, all you need to correctly bring up a Prussian. More of an insight into the way people thought in that time and place than any historian could tell me, I like to imagine.

Huldigung Friedrich Wilhelm des Dritten

26 Wednesday Apr 2017

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Another incident, this time at the Huldigung for Friedrich Wilhelm III in 1798, sounds like a good day out. Somewhat of an anti-democracy theme so stay away if you’re a true believer, as most are today.

Marwitz, not a particular fan of democracy, probably understandable given the recent (and continuing) events during the French Revolution, was not overly impressed by the presence of Abbé Sieyès as the French representative: “ein Kerl mit einem wahren Canaillen-Gesicht, mit seinem schwarzen Kopf (damals ging noch Alles gepudert) und mit seiner enormen dreifarbigen Schärpe.” (A wretch with a proper dog’s face, black hair — powdered wigs were still the current fashion — and a gigantic tri-coloured sash).

To make his day even better, a guest at a nearby table began spouting the latest fashionable socialist views (hardly the right time and place one would have thought), the first time that Marwitz had heard such views spoken aloud. Another nearby guest (Major von Bredow, perhaps related to him of the trousers fame) was even more incensed, rising red-faced from his chair he states: “Jetzt ist es genug! Infamer Hallunke, wenn er nun nicht den Augenblick das Maul hält, so wahr ich lebe, ich packe ihn, und werfe ihn hier zu dem Fenster hinaus!” (That’s enough, you scoundrel, if you don’t shut up this moment I’ll pick you up and throw you out the window!). The socialist, understandably, shuts up.

To the denigration of my bank balance Marwitz mentions that a commemorative Medallion was under each napkin on the table, so of course I had to buy one.

 

 

 

 

 

Schröckh’s Allgemeine Weltgeschichte für Kinder

07 Friday Apr 2017

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I found the entry in Marwitz’s Nachlasse about his education interesting, interesting enough to obtain a 1781 copy of one of his textbooks. The idea of seeing part of that which informed the mind of someone of his time and class was just too tempting. Undoubtedly it will be the source of several more barely readable posts. 236 years old!

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